The wording of this important patent, in its description of the property, is as follows: "Whereas, Colonel Lewis Morris of the Island of Barbadoes, hath long enjoyed, and by patent stands possest, of a certain plantation and tract of land, lying and being upon the maine, over against the town of Harlem, commonly called Bronck's land, the same containing about five hundred acres or two hundred and fifty morgen of land, besides the meadow thereunto annexed or adjoining, called and bounded as in the original Dutch ground brief and patent of confirmation is set forth; and the said Colonel Morris having made good improvement upon the said land, and there lying lands adjacent to him not included in any patent or grants, which land the said Colonel Morris doth desire lor further improvement, this said land and addition being bounded from his own house over against Harlem, running up Harlem river (oj)aniel Turner's land, ami so along his said land northward to John Archer's line of[FordJohn ham Manor], and from thence stretching east to the land Richardson and Thomas Hunt [West Farms patent], and thence along the Sound about southwest, through Bronck's kill to the said Colonel .Morris his house, the additional land containing (according to the survey thereof) the quantity of fourteen hundred, ami In conthe whole, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty acres." sideration of this grant Colonel Morris was to pay "yearly and every year, as a quit-rent to his royal highness, five bushels of good winter wheat." The land of Daniel Turner, mentioned in the patent, was a narrow strip of about eighty acres extending along the Harlem Turner was one of the original River just below Fordham Manor. patentees of Harlem, and was one of the first men of that village to compete with the Westchester people in acquiring lands beyond the Bronx.